European Information Law Responses (press, audiovisual and social media)

ongoing

"The proposed Chair aims to contribute to lifelong learning and educational, professional and personal development in higher education within and beyond Europe, fostering social cohesion, European identity and active citizenship. ""Decoding i-Disorders"" aims to train university students in resilience and literacy to be able to ""decode"" information disorders, deep fakes used as information sources, algorithmic biases and hate speech, promoting both academic teaching and social outreach. It is hypothesised that news disruption has had a troubling impact over the last decade, especially in the political arena and on media credibility. This proposal builds on previous staff research focused on the regulation of disinformation, the impact on elections and the analysis of hate speech. The Chair team is composed of eight (8) permanent professors of the UCM, belonging to the Departments and Faculties of Information Sciences, Sociology and Information Law as well as two (2) PhD candidates, at the beginning of their teaching careers. The lines of research of all team members are Information Law (with particular expertise in European Law, electoral and digital regulation in the EU and Latin America), Journalism and Sociology. The team’s research focuses on the study of disinformation and hate speech in social networks, and their forms of dissemination, proposing educational practices for the construction of positive narratives to combat polarisation. This group carries out 80% of the tasks. The team is further strengthened by the addition of six (6) experts, all PhD holders, in areas such as Constitutional Law, Journalism, Telematics and Political Communication, who are committed to upholding European values and who will collaborate with the Chair in both teaching and research, through events and dissemination actions. In particular, we have included a PhD in Journalism from Ukraine who has collaborated previously with Complutense. We also include another PhD in Political Co"